Perth woman who ate kebabs for breakfast loses 55kg

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Elora lost 55kg over the course of two years. Picture: CatersSource:Caters News Agency

A MORBIDLY obese woman who loved fast food so much she’d eat kebabs for breakfast has swapped her fast food habit for a caveman diet, and shed an amazing 55kg.

Elora Harre, 23, from Perth, was a size 24 at her biggest thanks to a solid diet of convenience foods including pizza, burgers and kebabs every day for brekkie.

But after developing headaches and sore eyes, she discovered she was pre-diabetic as a result of her eating habits, and was forced to ditch them once and for all.

Elora in 2013. Picture: CatersSource:Caters News Agency

Now Elora has shrunk from a size 24 to a size 12 after swapping her greasy take away food for the paleo diet, and eating meals consisting purely of natural foods.

She’s been so successful in her transformation, that she has amassed a huge online following and has just launched her own book chronicling her journey, called The Shrinking Violet — How to Lose Weight and Get Fit the paleo Way.

“I also added in workouts — I work out five days a week and mainly focus on weightlifting but do one cardio session a week. I love weighted back squats and dead lifts with my PT.”

But it was a decision to being documenting her journey, six months after she began, that really changed her life.

She said: “I started my Facebook page, ‘The Shrinking Violet’ in 2014 just to help keep me on the straight and narrow.

“It really took off and I was overwhelmed with the outpouring of support I received from complete strangers.

“As I lost more and more weight, other people wanted to do what I was doing too. When they found out I was doing it all naturally, they would ask for recipes and a book just seemed like a natural progression.

However, Elora, who is originally from Christchurch, isn’t able to credit all her success to her diet alone. The now size 12 health blogger spent $10,000 last year having 2.5kg of excess skin removed after her weight loss left her with saggy skin.

Elora was left with a lot of excess skin after she lost the weight. Picture: CatersSource:Caters News Agency

She said: “I had 2.5kg of skin removed in America and it was the best thing I ever did.

“It would hang down over my groin and would droop when I was working out. There was so much of it that I had to tuck it into my clothing!

“My main reason for getting it removed was from a medical point of view; it was giving me all sorts of problems such as skin infections and a nasty reoccurring staph infection.

“Removing it eliminated these problems and changed my life.

“I still have excess skin on my arms, underarms, upper and lower back, thighs and breasts and my goal is to one day have surgery to correct it all.